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English
Etymology
From over- + govern.
Verb
overgovern (third-person singular simple present overgoverns, present participle overgoverning, simple past and past participle overgoverned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To govern with too much rigidity or precision.
1833, Arthur Brooke Faulkner, Visit to Germany and the Low Countries in the Years 1829, 30, and 31:In Europe, he says, we over-govern. The subjects of European governments would seem, according to his notion, to be brought into this world only to be licked and taxed.
1924, Game Breeder and Sportsman, volumes 25-28, page 224:He should not overgovern his neighbors and they should not overgovern him with countless laws calling for more clerks, more police and more rules and regulations and orders which few persons will obey.
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